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== Development history and kernel/distribution support ==

Most of the major Linux distributions, including RedHat, SuSE, and Debian, do not employ ''umsdos'' to permit installation of Linux on a FAT disc volume. A few distributions do, however.<ref name="Smith2">{{cite book |title=The multi-boot configuration handbook |series=Handbook Series |author-first=Roderick W. |author-last=Smith |publisher=[[Que Publishing]] |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-7897-2283-6 |pages=256,341&ndash;342}}</ref> These include distributions such as Phat Linux, a distribution created by two schoolchildren which installs in <tt>C:\PHAT</tt> on DOS by unpacking a [[ZIP file]] and is booted by running a [[COMMAND.COM]] script named <tt>LINUX.BAT</tt>,<ref name="McCune"/> and [[ZipSlack]]{{Citation needed|date=September 2009}}.

The UMSDOS project was started in 1992 by Jacques Gelinas and made available to the net in January 1994 as a patch. It was included in the standard distribution starting with kernel 1.1.36.{{Citation needed|date=September 2009}} UMSDOS was removed from the Linux 2.6.11 kernel for lack of maintenance.{{Citation needed|date=September 2009}} UVFAT, an extension of UMSDOS to use the Windows data structures for long filenames instead of its own, was discontinued before release.<ref>{{Cite web |title=UMSDOS filesystem: UVFAT support |url=http://linux.voyager.hr/umsdos/#uvfat |website=linux.voyager.hr |access-date=2015-07-16}}</ref> They should work in 2.4.x kernels.{{Citation needed|date=September 2009}}